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Market Overview

Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide. When ignited, thermite produces an exothermic reaction. The thermite reaction is similar to the combustion of wood or gasoline, but involves metals and requires extremely high temperatures for ignition. Thermite is useful when a non-explosive heat source, independent of the external environment, is needed.

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Portable Thermite Fire Starter:

United States patent 7,632,365 B1 details a pyrotechnic thermite composition which offers: enhanced material perforation, increased reaction temperatures, and decreased toxicity. These prospective advantages may differentiate the composition from existing thermite formulations and work to provide potential competitive advantage within varied applications.

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This analysis examines potential applications and corresponding market opportunities for the pyrotechnic thermite composition. Although this list is by no means exhaustive, there are five primary applications explored:

Disaster clean-up

Flares

Fire starters

Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)

General construction and/or welding

In each of these uses, the thermite composition‘s reaction heat is applied to achieve different objectives. Objectives may include disaster clean up; perforation, flares; illumination, fire starters; ignition, EOD; perforation/ignition, and construction or welding; perforation/fusion.

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A general overview of the pyrotechnic thermite composition, and the markets to which it may enter, is provided for potential licensees and other entities with special interest.

It is important to note that this analysis is not undertaken in an effort to recommend one application or market over another.

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Rather, general overviews of each market are provided in an effort to provide baseline characterizations for further development and investigative efforts. Below is a breakdown of the report with a summary of key points relayed within the full assessment.

Nanoparticle thermite can explode with energies less than 1 mJ, & at very low ignition temperatures ~ 100°C. By comparing the ignition of thermites prepared with nano- and micrometer-sized particles, researchers found that micron-sized powders ignited at 610°C, while the nanopowders already ignited at 100°C.

The preferred pyrotechnic thermite composition is composed of magnalium (Mg/AL), copper oxide (CuO), molybdenum (MoO3), and a binder material. The patented composition specifically consists of 24.2% by weight magnalium, 39.8% by weight CuO, 33% by weight MoO3, and approximately 3% by weight of the binder material.

On December 31, 2003, the U.S. wood treatment industry stopped treating residential lumber with arsenic and chromium (chromated copper arsenate, or CCA). This was a voluntary agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. CCA was replaced by copper-based pesticides, with exceptions for certain industrial uses. CCA may still be used for outdoor products like utility trailer beds and non-residential construction like piers, docks, and agricultural buildings. Industrial wood preservation chemicals are generally not available directly to the public and may require special approval to import or purchase depending on the product and the jurisdiction where being used. Who’s watching ?

Incendiary nanoparticles could have been put in new cars & in building materials manufactured overseas. Nanoparticle fire accelerants could have been secretly placed in the treated lumber, composite roof tiles, paints, cements, & other building materials.

Poisons have been put in overseas manufactured goods coming to America before, e.g.,

That imported drywall is now at the center of complaints of foul odors seeping from walls. Hundreds of homeowners, most in Florida, have also reported corrosion to their air conditioners, mirrors, electrical outlets and even jewelry.

State and federal authorities have traced the problems to Chinese-made drywall but haven’t yet fully determined the causes. Some Chinese experts, however, suspect that the culprit is a radioactive phosphorus substance — phosphogypsum — that is banned for construction use in the U.S. but has been used by Chinese manufacturers for almost a decade.

China is the world’s largest pesticide producer and almost all of their foods are contaminated with chemicals. There is no such word like organic for foods. This can cause many diseases including cancer.

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Chinese food is the worst to buy, as it can cause many health complications. To increase their profit they adulterate the food with pesticides, harmful chemicals and many other substances that can cause cancer.

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The solution is to stop global trade, produce all essentials locally, and proliferate the use of new inexpensive measurements technologies as sentries.

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